Two-barred Crossbill
The two-barred crossbill or white-winged crossbill (Loxia leucoptera) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It breeds in the coniferous forests of North America and the Palearctic. == Taxonomy == The two-barred crossbill was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with the crossbills in the genus Loxia and coined the binomial name Loxia leucoptera. Gmelin specified the locality as Hudson Bay and New York. The specific epithet leucoptera is from Ancient Greek leukopteros meaning "white-winged" (leukos means "white" and pteron means "wing"). Gmelin based his account on the "white winged crossbill" that had been described in 1783 by the English ornithologist John Latham in his multi-volume work A General Synopsis of Birds. Latham had examined a specimen in the Leverian Museum in London. Two subspecies are recognised: L. l. bifasciata (Brehm, CL, 1827) – north Europe to east Siberia and northeast China L. l. leucoptera Gmelin, JF, 1789 – Alaska, Canada and north USA == Description == The two-barred crossbill is 14.5–17 cm (5.7–6.7 in) in length and weighs 25–40 g (0.88–1.41 oz). It has short legs, a…
Glacier National Park
Glacier, Canada
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Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Canada
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Area G (Forster Creek/Mount Assiniboine), Canada
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Area B (Shelter Bay/Mica Creek), Canada
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Sainte-Praxède, Canada
+126 birds+26 mammals
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Improvement District No. 9, Canada
+121 birds+30 mammals
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Improvement District No. 12, Canada
+127 birds+32 mammals
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Le Rocher-Percé, Canada
+146 birds+3 mammals
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Lac-Saint-Jean-Est, Canada
+135 birds+24 mammals
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Shawinigan, Canada
+120 birds+30 mammals
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Denali Borough, United States
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Mont-Élie, Canada
+39 birds+9 mammals
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Improvement District No. 04, Canada
+127 birds+30 mammals
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Lac-Pikauba, Canada
+33 birds+13 mammals
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Dehcho Region, Canada
+24 birds+14 mammals
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Area A (Kicking Horse/Kinbasket Lake), Canada
+81 birds+26 mammals
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Alma Parish, Canada
+131 birds+27 mammals
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Lac-des-Dix-Milles, Canada
+110 birds+23 mammals
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Canada
+128 birds+19 mammals
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Canada
+28 birds+18 mammals
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Rimouski, Canada
+119 birds+17 mammals
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La Patrie, Canada
+40 birds+11 mammals
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Carleton Parish, Canada
+114 birds+16 mammals
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Gaspé, Canada
+131 birds+11 mammals
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